Reed and Stem
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Reed and Stem was an American architectural firm best known for designing major early 20th-century railroad stations, including New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reed and Stem canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1301647 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reed and Stem Context triple: [King Street Station, hasArchitect, Reed and Stem]
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Reed
Reed is a given name and surname of English and Scottish origin, commonly associated with meanings related to red hair or a person living near reeds.
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B.
Kanva Shakha
Kanva Shakha is a prominent Vedic recension or school of the Yajurveda, known for its distinct textual tradition and ritual interpretations within Hindu scripture.
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C.
Solomon's Seal
Solomon's Seal is a legendary symbol associated with King Solomon, often depicted as an interlaced hexagram or pentagram believed to grant power over spirits and demons in various religious and occult traditions.
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D.
Touchardia
Touchardia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its shrubby, nettle-like species.
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E.
Greenleaf
Greenleaf is the middle name of the 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reed and Stem Target entity description: Reed and Stem was an American architectural firm best known for designing major early 20th-century railroad stations, including New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
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A.
Reed
Reed is a given name and surname of English and Scottish origin, commonly associated with meanings related to red hair or a person living near reeds.
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B.
Kanva Shakha
Kanva Shakha is a prominent Vedic recension or school of the Yajurveda, known for its distinct textual tradition and ritual interpretations within Hindu scripture.
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C.
Solomon's Seal
Solomon's Seal is a legendary symbol associated with King Solomon, often depicted as an interlaced hexagram or pentagram believed to grant power over spirits and demons in various religious and occult traditions.
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D.
Touchardia
Touchardia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its shrubby, nettle-like species.
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E.
Greenleaf
Greenleaf is the middle name of the 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Reed and Stem Description of subject: Reed and Stem was an American architectural firm best known for designing major early 20th-century railroad stations, including New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
King Street Station